Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Zakaria's ten lessons include government, markets, experts, digital, globalization and solitude with his characteristic perception and edgeZakaria's previous books The Future of Freedom and The Post American World (also published by Allen Lane) were international bestsellers and translated into over 25 languages. We have sold over 30k copies of The Post American WorldFareed was named 'Writer of the Year' in the GQ Men of the Year Awards, 2020His flagship show Fareed Zakaria GPS airs across the world to 220 million households and his journalism in the Washington Post reaches between 80-100 million readers every monthFareed Zakaria hosts CNN's flagship international affairs show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, which airs across the world to 220 million households. He writes a weekly column for the Washington Post, which reaches between 80-100 million readers every month. He is the author of The Future of Freedom (2003), The Post-American World (2008) and In Defense of a Liberal Education (2015).It is an intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making.

From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World

'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York Times

Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric threat, set in motion by something seemingly small, and different from anything the world had experienced before. Lenin is supposed to have said, 'There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.' This is one of those times when history has sped up.

In this urgent and timely book, Fareed Zakaria, one of the 'top ten global thinkers of the last decade' (Foreign Policy), foresees the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. In ten surprising, hopeful 'lessons', he writes about the acceleration of natural and biological risks, the obsolescence of the old political categories of right and left, the rise of 'digital life', the future of globalization and an emerging world order split between the United States and China. He invites us to think about how we are truly social animals with community embedded in our nature, and, above all, the degree to which nothing is written - the future is truly in our own hands.

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present and future, and will become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.